Nosefart: NES Music Player

Nosefart plays NSF (Nintendo Entertainment System Sound Format) files
so you can listen to those old tunes without actually having to play
through the games. The Sourceforge project for Nosefart is maintained
by Matthew Strait <quadong AT users . sf . net>. See also the homepage of the orginal author,
Matt Conte.

Standalone player in Linux: graphical

Maintained by me (Matthew Strait). You can get this by installing the nosefart
and gnosefart
RPMs. (If you don't use an RPM-based distro with an x86 processor, you can compile
nosefart and gnosefart from the
source package. Also should work in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.)

gnosefart/nosefart does not play nicely with
the way some Linux systems handle sound in the modern age. It might not
work if, for instance, esd is running. In this case, you must
killall esd (breaking all your normal sound programs for the
session) for it to work. It does work by default in
Ubuntu 7.10, so maybe esd has become smarter since I noticed this
problem in early 2006. However, it'd be nice if it always worked. If
you have the skills, please fix it and mail me a patch.

Standalone player in Linux: command-line

Maintained by me (Matthew Strait). You can get this by installing the nosefart
RPM. (If you don't use an RPM-based distro with an x86 processor, you can compile
nosefart from the
source package.) There is also a FreeBSD port.

Standalone player in MS-DOS

Unmaintained. (I can't maintain this because I don't run Windows/DOS.) You can get this
by unzipping the MS-DOS
package. It can also be found in the
source package.

XMMS plugin

Contributed by Benjamin Gerard <ben AT sashipa DOT com> and psuedo-maintained by
Matthew Strait. You can get this by installing the nosefart-xmms_plugin
RPM. (If you don't use an RPM-based distro with an x86 processor, you can compile the
plugin from the
source package.)